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New York Times

The Odds Are as Big as Their Dreams
Michael Rodgers came from California to New York City last month to defy the odds of making a living as an actor, not to defy death by pedaling a secondhand bicycle through Midtown traffic.

Bollywood Flavors Opening of Spoleto

ARTS, BRIEFLY; Footnotes - NYTW Season

Feats of Death-Defying Spandex
This stunts-and-spandex spectacular is ideally suited for children ages 6 to 12 with an advanced interest in jungle fauna, gymnastics or sequins.

The Adventures of Georgia, Queen of the Desert Painting
The eager, animated actress-playwright Natalie Mosco tackles perhaps America’s first female superstar painter in “A Brush With Georgia O’Keeffe.”

Not Your Mother’s Original-Cast Albums
The influence of rap and rock is being felt in a new crop of original-cast albums.
Interactive Feature: Interactive Feature: New School Show Tunes

ARTS, BRIEFLY; Footnotes - 'Ruined' casting

Bruise-Inducing Games: Young Sadists at Play
Anthony Neilson’s play places too many demands on its actors as it tries to ricochet from comedy to pathos to psychosis.

Wicked Witch Bounces in Like a Bohemian Big Sister
There was abundant talent in Idina Menzel’s performance, but no sign of the kind of oversight that might snap it into focus.

'Bash’d!': Two Romeos in a Modern Tragedy

'Palace of the End': The Cycle of Life, Damaged by the Horror of War

ARTS, BRIEFLY; Revival of ’70s Play - 'for colored girls'

ARTS, BRIEFLY; Footnotes - OCR of 'Hired Man' onsale at 59E59

Obituary: Kermit Love, Costume Creator, Dies at 91

New York Times ArtsBeat Blog

London Theater Journal: The Ugly and the Beautiful, on Stage and Newsstands

London Theater Journal: Ibsen, in “Rosmersholm,” Still Keeps Them Guessing

London Theater Journal: The Power of Wind in Two Master Classes on Class

London Theater Journal: Take That, a New Twist on Jukebox Musicals

London Theater Journal: Time for a Ganja Break at ‘The Harder They Come’

London Theater Journal: The Cost of Everything

New York Daily News

Having a vine time swinging in 'Jungle Fantasy'
Just as "Cirque Dreams: Jungle Fantasy" is about to begin, a guy dressed up like a tortoise starts creeping across the forest floor. "The show will begin," a voice booms, "as soon as the turtle gets out of the jungle."

It's 'Curtains' for 3 Broadway shows
It's "last call" for three Broadway shows ending their runs on Sunday. But popular stars of each will soon be back on New York stages.

Hot Seats: Theater and comedy picks for this weekend

A rap show from unlikely creators
The words "gay rappers" will, for many audience members, evoke an unusual sort of musical sideshow act. "Bash'd," the hour-long hip-hop musical that opened Tuesday, proves that MCs come in all shapes, sizes and colors - even in pink.

'Palace of the End' takes a look at Iraq war

amNY

Run Away from the 'Cirque'
Don't be misled: Cirque Dreams is not Cirque du Soleil. Whereas a Cirque du Soleil show combines European circus art with ambitious concepts, Cirque Dreams is kiddy-friendly and bland.
Photos: 'Cirque Dreams'
Video: 'Cirque Dreams' on Broadway

Talking to Cheyenne Jackson

Sunday' to Fade Away Sunday

Newsday

Review: Cirque Dreams, Jungle Fantasy

Long Island theaters feature 'La Mancha' and 'Murder'

Review: 'Forbidden Broadway' at Gateway Playhouse

New York Post

Show of circus acts has a familiar ring to it
Don't be fooled by the title: "Cirque Dreams Jungle Fan tasy" isn't a Cirque du Soleil extravaganza. Rather, it's the brainchild of Neal Goldberg and his South Florida-based...

Riedel: Hicks ignites 'Grease'
Despite pans, revival gets boost from 'Idol'

Riedel: Evening up 'Addams'
Play nets Neuwirth and tempts Lane

Gays get good rap
Which of these three words doesn't belong: gay, rap, opera? It's a trick question, because they go together bril liantly in "BASH'd," which opened last night off-Broadway after...

New York Sun

Above and Beyond a Three-Ringed Affair
Review of: Cirque Dreams Jungle Fantasy

India.Arie Heads to Broadway

Bill T. Jones To Direct Fela Kuti Musical

New York Journal News

'Twelfth Night' and the band played on
At Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival's "Twelfth Night," music is the food of love -— and the band plays on.

Deathly afraid of stillness in Stony Point
Tony-winner Michele Pawk (right) plays a grieving mother in "The Fall to Earth" at Penguin Rep, opening tonight in Stony Point.

'Brooklyn Boy' delivers emotional punch
Antrim Playhouse director Andrew Barrett's approach is stylish and cinematic.

ny1

Latina Queer Voices Heard In "Pandora's" Off-Broadway Show

"Damn Yankees" Returns For Short Run At City Center

Broadway's "Gypsy Robe" Honors The Chorus

Time Out NY

John Glover
Lex Luthor's bad dad connects to his inner patriarch for The Marriage of Bette and Boo.

Macbeth
An eye-popping summer blockbuster theater from St. Ann’s Warehouse: shocks, gore and high-tech.

A Perfect Couple
Brooke Berman's dramedy is for everyone who's fortyish, eyeing marriage, but still feeling like a slacker.

Palace of the End
Judith Thompson’s trio of monologues bear witness to violence, torture and unbearable guilt in Iraq.

Arias with a Twist
Drag crooner Joey Arias joins forces with puppet master Basil Twist and the results are mind-bendingly good.

Bash’d!
Two inspired Canadian hip-hop-comedy artists do for faggot what gangsta rap did for nigger.

Miss America
Split Britches rambles through the ultra-mediated, ADD-addled detritus of postmillennial Americana.

Village Voice

True East: American Icon Sam Shepard Returns to New York

Chatting With John Tiffany

Michael Stuhlbarg's Hamlet: Jangled Out of Tune

Village Voice Blogs

Musto: Phone Rings, Door Chimes, Where is Sondheim?

New York Observer

Stay for the Curtain! Eustis Quotes Bergman in Pedestrian Hamlet

New York Observer Culture Blog

Spiegelworld Unveils new Lineup

Hot Tickets: New Year's With My Morning Jacket; A Gay Rap Opera and a Dead Horse

Dylan McDermott Joins Playwright Horizons' Changes

Weinsteins Bringing Neverland , The Wall to Broadway

New York Magazine Vulture Blog

John Waters and His ‘Filthy World’

Downpression! Where Are All the Reggae Musicals?

Sam Shepard Gets Even More Beckettian, and Other Culture Highlights From This Week’s ‘New York’

Hartford Courant

Albee, Turner, Alternately At-Odds, In-Synch

Salty, Sassy And Irrepressible: Thoroughly Elaine Stritch

Rizzo: New musical 'Myth' at O'Neill stars John Lloyd Young

Review: Elaine Stritch Has Audience In Stitches At Hartford Stage

Hartford Advocate

Stage: Summer Fling(s)
A crowded play about love, lust and decaying marriages (all that good stuff), Proposals explores the...

New Haven Advocate

The Who's Tommy
At the Yale Cabaret: You?ll need to see it.

The Straight and Darrow
Clarence Darrow shows are a dime a dozen. Henry Fonda and Leslie Nielsen are among the major movie stars...

Star-Ledger

Ready for 'King Lear'
Daniel Davis rose to prominence by playing a character with one name: Niles, the butler in "The Nanny." Now he's portraying another, but one worlds apart from a gentleman's gentleman. He'll be "King Lear" at the Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey in Madison, starting on Wednesday night.

'Dreams' a real snooze
There are no actual lions and tigers and bears, oh my, in "Cirque Dreams: Jungle Fantasy."

Schooled in Bard-knocks
When they were in high school, they were probably three class clowns who were less interested in Shakespeare than in throwing paper missiles, splashing people, and doing anything to get attention.

Trenton Times

Actors develop relationship with Bard's 'Shrew'

Princeton Fest concludes with opera, play, recital

Bergen Record

Review: Cirque Dreams: Jungle Fantasy
Did you know there’s a Mongolian State School of Contortion? Or that very few practitioners of Bulgarian hair-spinning are left in the world?

Princeton Packet

Review: 'The Complete Works of William Shakespeare'
Reduced Shakespeare Company began in 1981 with a 25-minute spoof of Hamlet presented at a Renaissance Fair in California. Originally the troupe had three guys and a gal, but when she broke her ankle three weeks into the production, a “school-chum” was added and he played the female roles “in drag.”

Review: 'Oklahoma!'
Oklahoma! is a show that almost never happened. Come back with me to the late months of 1942 when the Theatre Guild discussed turning Lynn Rigg’s drama Green Grow The Lilacs into a musical. At that time the Guild had only $30,000 in its treasury and potential backers had plenty of reasons to question the project. Composer Richard Rodgers had never previously used Oscar Hammerstein II as a lyricist. Choreographer Agnes de Mille had never worked on a musical. Director Rouben Mamoulian had indeed directed Porgy and Bess, but that show had lost money.

Albany Times-Union

'All's Well' a problem play with problems
In 1896 Shakespearean scholar F. S. Boas identified three works -- "Measure for Measure," "All's Well That Ends Well" and "Troilus and Cressida" -- as the Bard's "problem plays."

WTD cast and crew find 'Owl' to be a hoot